Jobs in Iraq

[Pongo]

Originally posted by ZXMAW
No, i think Pongo was very helpful. Look at all the job openings and companies that hired them.

I'm sorry for those lost souls and admire their courage. I believe many of them were there to try and make a difference.

ZX

Why would you attribute some noble attibutes to their contracts other then your own?
"I figure, I'm not married and have no kids and willing to take a chance at making some good tax free money overseas and come back home in a year or two for a fresh head start.

"
thats why they went too.
The money was too good to pass up.

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by Pongo
I can see why you would think that.
I posted a link to a job site that he asked for.
I posted a link to the army
I posted a link to the casualties that contractors have suffered.
So I can see why that means I dont want democracy in Iraq.

Shacktacular.

[eskimo2]

Originally posted by B17Skull12
alaska has all the dangerous jobs.  crab fishing, dog seld people, and bush pilots.

And logging.  My sister was a teacher in a logging camp of 600 people for several years.  Every year one or sometimes many loggers would die.

The bush pilot thing has its risks as well, but nothing like logging and fishing.

eskimo

[anonymous]

Originally posted by Pongo
Why would you attribute some noble attibutes to their contracts other then your own?
"I figure, I'm not married and have no kids and willing to take a chance at making some good tax free money overseas and come back home in a year or two for a fresh head start.

"
thats why they went too.
The money was too good to pass up.

youre wrong about the motivation. most of the guys working as shooters of one type or another are not in iraq because of the money. like i said its not hard to make almost as much money with much less risk and not work in iraq.

[Pongo]

Thats an interesting and fanciful reason why people would go to Iraq. I prefer to believe they are there for the same reasons that ZXMaw wants to be there and the same reason why Funky doesnt want to be there. Money.
Nice edit by the way. Added alot more authority to your opinion.

Service men..different story.

[anonymous]

Originally posted by Pongo
Thats an interesting and fanciful reason why people would go to Iraq. I prefer to believe they are there for the same reasons that ZXMaw wants to be there and the same reason why Funky doesnt want to be there. Money.
Nice edit by the way. Added alot more authority to your opinion.

Service men..different story.

i spoke hastily because the subject is personal to me. and youre right about the service men.

[Bluedog]

Do they have a need for plant/heavy machinery operators I wonder?

32,single, debt free, nothing really tying me down here....could a bloke from Oz with no real skills bar knowing how to make a bulldozer, grader or scraper do it's thing actually help to make Iraq a better place somehow? I drive trucks too, but that looks like it might not be such a flash idea over there.

Or is it pretty much technical skills they want, like IT stuff, engineers, electricians etc?

I dont even know if i'm half serious about this, it is just something I have been curious about lately.

[anonymous]

Originally posted by Bluedog
Do they have a need for plant/heavy machinery operators I wonder?

32,single, debt free, nothing really tying me down here....could a bloke from Oz with no real skills bar knowing how to make a bulldozer, grader or scraper do it's thing actually help to make Iraq a better place somehow? I drive trucks too, but that looks like it might not be such a flash idea over there.

Or is it pretty much technical skills they want, like IT stuff, engineers, electricians etc?

I dont even know if i'm half serious about this, it is just something I have been curious about lately.

for us id check with army corps of engineers. they contracting work thru several private companies. eod and construction and such. i know of non us citizens working on us mil contracts thru private companies. most are uk or nz or australia. lots of building going on there. and good idea about no trucks. ninety percent of risk right now is on the roads. but area of iraq also matters. some areas been quiet for some time now.

[Pongo]

saw this coming.